For the first two weeks of April, my local library holds a "Friends of the Library" sale. This is a huge flea market/ thrift store-type sale in an old store (it's actually the former library of my library branch) where they sell books, records, games, and moveis that people have donated throughout the previous years. …
Tag: books
JLA: Riddle of the Beast
Elseworlds books were fascinating to me when they first appeared in the early 1990s, and while I didn't get all of them (mostly because the $4.95 price tag was a bit too much at the time), I got my hands on a fair share, especially a number of the Batman ones (of which there were …
If I Disappear
I'm not a huge mystery novel reader. Now, I have nothing against the genre and enjoy it when I do read it, it's just not my go-to. But last year, I was bumming around my local Barnes & Noble and saw the rather striking cover to Eliza Jane Brazier's novel about a woman who goes …
The Week in Uncollecting, 1/9/22-1/15/22
Wonder Woman by Phil Jimenez Omnibus. I've had this one for a while, and it pretty much put a button on what I wanted to own as far as Wonder Woman was concerned (though I do want to read Greg Rucka's run on DC Infinite). Jimenez's run on Wonder Woman was one that I read …
The #WarComicsMonth in Uncollecting
It's November, and for the uninitiated, that means it's War Comics Month (shout out to Luke Jaconetti, btw). I'm a fan of comics of all genres, and while I don't own a ton of them, I do enjoy a classic war book; heck, I did an entire podcast on one. And with a pile of …
Working
I suppose there is something appropriate about my finishing Studs Terkel's Working on the last day of the school year when I usually spend my day getting ready to not work for an eight-week stretch. Of course, this could be total coincidence and the bigger factor in my finishing the book is that it's due …
On getting rid of books
One of the most trending Netflix shows lately (is that how the kids say it?) is Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. I haven't watched it yet, but from the way I've heard it described, it sounds like it's a lot like Clean House or any other number of shows where people are coached on how …
The Uncollecting 